implementing your own Porcelain you are not supposed to
use it.
+\--depth=<depth>::
+ Deepen the history of a 'shallow' repository created by
+ `git clone` with `--depth=<depth>` option (see gitlink:git-clone[1])
+ by the specified number of commits.
+
[verse]
'git-clone' [--template=<template_directory>] [-l [-s]] [-q] [-n] [--bare]
[-o <name>] [-u <upload-pack>] [--reference <repository>]
- <repository> [<directory>]
+ [--depth=<depth>] <repository> [<directory>]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
by initializing `remote.origin.url` and `remote.origin.fetch`
configuration variables.
+
OPTIONS
-------
--local::
if unset the templates are taken from the installation
defined default, typically `/usr/share/git-core/templates`.
+--depth=<depth>::
+ Create a 'shallow' clone with a history truncated to the
+ specified number of revs. A shallow repository has
+ number of limitations (you cannot clone or fetch from
+ it, nor push from nor into it), but is adequate if you
+ want to only look at near the tip of a large project
+ with a long history, and would want to send in a fixes
+ as patches.
+
<repository>::
The (possibly remote) repository to clone from. It can
be any URL git-fetch supports.